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The Wall Street Journal has one of their career trends by ordinal list pieces today on where young people in the United States are deciding to move during the recession, and once again Washington, D.C. is at the top of the list. We've heard almost all of this before, but here's why the newspaper says the D.C. area is the best option for young job seekers:

Government hiring is projected to grow fast, and jobs in lobbying, aerospace, defense contracting and professional services are also a draw. Mr. DeVol calls Washington the national leader in high-tech services, surpassing Silicon Valley. Washington's 4,000-plus nonprofits hold appeal for service-minded youth. And amid rising regulation of financial markets, says Barbara Lang, president of the DC Chamber of Commerce, "much of Wall Street is now moving to K Street."

No big arguments from us here, though we can appreciate finally seeing a little hedging on the sustainability of the "so many government jobs" argument at the end of the D.C. blurb, too. At some point, the federal government is going to have to make cuts, just like all state and local governments have been doing for the last year or so.

Of the numerous romantic notions surrounding the writing life, perhaps none dies harder than that of the solitary, ink-stained wretch plugging away at his or her latest work in some dilapidated garret, alone and unnoticed and oblivious to what's going on around him or her. Writing may be a solitary act, but as any intellectually honest writer can tell you, writers need communities: first, because the realities of today's writing life necessitate that one be...

MONDAY: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, Connie Schultz will be at Politics and Prose to discuss her book ... And His Lovely Wife, which is her behind-the-scenes look at Brown's campaign and their marriage. 7 p.m. In Last One In, Nicholas Kulish, who was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter squadron for the Wall Street Journal, spins a slightly unbelievable tale of a gossip columnist who ends up covering...

As sunny weather descends (or perhaps that should be in the past tense, now that we look out the window) on the Washington area, DCist’s thoughts turn to the plethora of outdoor activities that will soon be made not only possible, but enjoyable, by the temperate days. If you're like us, you look forward to spring because it means the annual renaissance of local farmers' markets. If you call yourself a Washingtonian, you're already...

Back in January, the new Congress passed revamped ethics rules theoretically intended in part to minimize the influence of lobbyists on lawmakers and their staff. How our elected representatives hate lobbyists, with their wee beady eyes and those smug looks on their faces. "Oh, you're gonna vote for ethanol subsidies, oh!" How can they hate lobbyists? The lobbyists put addictive chemicals -- money, swag, and trips -- in their dealings with lawmakers that make them crave lobbyist contact fortnightly, smartass. Without the new ethics rules in place, our lawmakers are completely unable to determine right from wrong on their own -- powerless to resist the lavish meals and international excursions thrown at them in tacit exchange for their votes.

Well, we suppose it makes sense. Just like a store-owner wouldn't want customers to use their products without actually buying them, the Washington Business Journal is going all Wall Street Journal on us and putting their online content behind a door open only to print subscribers. As of Monday, July 24, the city's business publication of note will no longer be a resource for freeloaders like us. Phooey. Are we going to pay to get to their stuff? Heck no. It's not like they have Maureen Dowd to offer us.

Washington loves the color red. It’s the color of choice for power-tie and power-suit wearing Hill types, and, of course, we all like reading about said Hill folk getting caught red-handed and red-faced. But on Friday, the color takes on a different meaning for National Wear Red Day, part of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign, which aims to raise awareness of heart disease as the leading cause of death for women in the U.S.

Just one man's opinion, but now is a good time to say it: The New York Times is not any longer -- in my mind -- the greatest newspaper in the land. Nor is it the base line for the public narrative that it once was. Some time in the least year or so I moved the Washington Post into that position ... The Post, I believe, is our great national newspaper now; the Times is number two, with the Wall Street Journal close behind. Still a strong fleet. With a new ship in the lead perhaps it will sail to unexpected places.

To our media friends on 15th Street from whom we have taken so much -- we salute you.

Over at the DCKickball blog the players seem to resent being in the shadow of the WAKA league. Our last post about kickball summarized a City Paper cover story on the "war" between the two leagues, and elicited some comments, including one who observed the events were "Once again proving the point that white professional DC is the home of high school ex-student body vice presidents," and another upon hearing about the length of time spent drinking after games asks "should you at least spend time PLAYING the sport?!"

A faithful DCist tipster sends us this camera phone image from the 24th Street Barnes and Noble in Billings, Mont. While no other national newspapers aside from USA Today and The Wall Street Journal have seemed to have made their way into south central Montana, just below Shotgun News is ... The Washington Times.

For this Presidents Day installment of DCist's ongoing series featuring overlooked local monuments, we asked ourselves: Who was the worst president of all time? It is always popular to maintain that the current officeholder is it, especially these days. But it's worth looking a bit further back to consider the legacy of James Buchanan, our 15th president, who nonetheless managed to rate a memorial. Buchanan can be found along the eastern wall of the Italian-inspired...

The Wall Street Journal examined today the heated competition between Chinese-owned bus companies and Greyhound buses between major U.S. cities. The stiff competition with newcomers has put Greyhound in a tight spot and forced them to cut prices between D.C., New York, and Boston. In Boston the companies have even won a spot in that city's South Station bus terminal, although their buses aren't yet listed on the television screens.